Prisoner- Chapter 35

I woke up to a dark room and I guessed it must be dark outside, because the sunlight that had escaped through where the curtains met was gone.

I turned my head to look at the clock on my nightstand, wincing as the pain in my neck became noticeable. According to the clock it was 2:30 a.m. I had been asleep for ten and a half hours. I think that's a record for me. I never got to sleep that long.

Unfortunately that meant that everyone else was probably asleep on normal hours and wouldn't be awake for at least four or five hours.

I decided to try my luck at sitting up and immediately regretted it. My stomach was throbbing with pain so immense I wanted to cry.

I decided to see how bad it looked, and if it looked as bad as it felt then I'd just rather die. I took a deep breath, trying to be brave. I lifted my shirt, then my head to survey my injury. The area around my ribs had swelled so much since I had gone to sleep and purple bruising covered the whole left side of my stomach.

The pain seemed to increase after looking at it. I pulled my shirt down and closed my eyes feeling tears threaten my eyes. My breathing quickened as I let the tears fall and for a moment I swore I couldn't breathe. I tried desperately to suck in breaths and flashed back to when Ari had been choking me. I had come so close to blacking out.

I closed my eyes, squeezing them to release more tears. I began to relax as I felt air come again. It hurt to breathe, but I was going to keep doing it.

I eventually stopped crying and felt exhausted. I closed my eyes and let sleep take me again. I could definitely use as much sleep as I can get.

LATER (The ruler wasn't working, it had some kind of error.)

I woke up to a knock on my door. Fang.

"What do you want?" I asked grumpily.

"To make sure you're still alive." Fang said opening the door.

"Well, you saw." I said. "Now, go away."

"Someone's in a bad mood." Fang said eyeing me.

"You would be too if you were in as much pain as I am right now." I said taking a deep breath and wincing at the pain that came after.

"Or if I looked the way you did right now." He said showing a smirk. I knew he was trying to get me to smile, but I was too miserable and afraid that if I did that it would cause me some kind of pain.

"It's not funny." I said weakly turning my gaze away from him to the window on my opposite side.

"Sorry." I heard him say, walking next to my bed. "Hurt that bad?"

"Yeah, it hurts that bad." I said turning to look at him again. "I'm afraid to move, because I'm scared that it will trigger more pain and that includes breathing."

"Anything I can do to help?" He asked crossing his arms.

"No." I said closing my eyes and to my horror, feeling a tear run down my cheek.

"Max, it will be okay." He said uncrossing his arms, his face softened.

"I know." I said sniffing, but was met with pain thanks to my broken nose. "Ow, see what I mean?"

"Here." He said wiping the tear from my cheek with a gentle hand.

"Thanks." I said sounding almost as shocked as I was. I turned away embarrassed.

"I'll go get you some breakfast." Fang said walking away.

I was left lying there wondering what had just happened.

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